Tuesday, February 22, 2011

My craft room is spread between two houses. What a nightmare! There is unfortunately no sign of stamping in sight in the next week or more , so luckily I had a card or two put back that never got blogged!

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Stampendous is looking for 4 stampers in the blogosphere to serve for 3 months on our BlogStars Design Team. Every 3 months we'll put out a call for 4 new stampers.

What will BlogStars need to do?:

1. Create at least one blog post with a project or card each week during your 3 month term.2. Complete and submit your post to Stampendous by Thursday of each week.3. Post your project to your Personal Blog the following week.4. Upload each project to various forums as requested.5. Over the length of your term your posts should include one tutorial, one scrapbook page, and one 3D project. The rest of your posts may be any type of project you desire.6. Upload your project (or another using Stampendous stamps and products) to one challenge blog anywhere on the web each week.7. Participate in our Design Team challenge blog (with the same project or another).8. Comment as often as possible on Stampendous' Blog, Facebook Posts, Tweets, on other Stampendous DT member blogs, and on Stampendous cards in forums and galleries.9. Place a link to the Stampendous website and blog on your blog for the duration of your term. (we'll provide you cute badges with which to do this).10. Provide model releases for any projects using photos of people (we can provide a plain release).10. Participate in our Design Team Blog Hop which we will hold quarterly.

What's In it for You:

1. You'll receive 2 Stampendous Perfectly Clear Stamp Sets or Cling Rubber Stamp Sets each month of your term, plus we'll include some Stampendous accessories such as glitter, embossing powder and stickers in each package. You may use any current Stampendous merchandise on your projects, not just what we send you.2. You will receive adorable badges to display on your blog.3. We'll put your name and a link to your blog on our blog.4. Membership in our Design Team Facebook Group for the duration of your term.5. New stamping connections and a great relationship with one of the top companies in the craft stamping industry.

Other Notes:

1. You won't need to send us your actual samples, but your photos must be top quality!

2. Your products and projects are yours to keep, but we retain the right to use your projects anywhere we like.

How to Apply:

1. Submit, by email, 3 - 4 projects which represent your best work. Projects should have Stampendous products and stamps as the focus, although other items may be used. Product used for this application does not have to be currently available.

2. We will consider photography of the projects as part of the judging process. We can only use high resolution photos of the best quality with good lighting, no distracting backgrounds, and clear focus. You may watermark your photos.

3. For at least one of your projects please include clear, concise directions and a list of products necessary for a reader to complete the project.

4. Please include a link to your personal blog, a list of other design teams on which you are serving/have served, and a little bit about yourself including your full name and preferred mailing address.

5. Send your email to submissions@stampendous.com with BlogStars in the subject line by Thursday, February 24th.

6. We'll respond to every email so you know we got it. We'll notify the 4 new BlogStars on Monday, February 28th and mail their goodies. First submissions will be due March 10th, and final submissions of the term will be due on May 26th.

7. If you're not chosen, we'll keep your email and check to see if you want to be considered for the second term of Stampendous BlogStars beginning in June.

We would love to have you play along with us! All you have to do is to use at least 3 of the items listed on Juanita's Itinerary. I used Sparkle, No flowers, Buttons, Movie, Border Punch, and Friends in the sentiment.

I added some Icicle Stickles to her wings and some Silverfox Smooch to parts of his armor and sword. to give the sparkle and shine.The top left corer was cut with a decorative edge scissor (which I also used for the tops of my tag) My button was dressed up with some May Arts silk ribbon and some assort ribbon scraps from my stash.

Here's the Copic colors that I used. I pulled the color scheme from the Cosmo Cricket paper used on the card.

Head over and leave some love for the rest of the Desert Island Crafters too!! We all really love your sweet comments :)

Monday, February 14, 2011

Are you excited? We all are! This hop has grown so fast...from just about a week ago it was just a few friends...now we have over 50 stops on the best Valentine's Day Hop ever!!

There is an INCREDIBLE amount of talent along the way so be sure to stop at EVERY players blog AND be sure to leave some love on ALL the players' posts...winners will be chosen randomly from all posts and all blogs. There are over 20 prizes!!

I actually have 2 projects for you today! The first is a layout that I created with these absolutely most stinkingly adorable Iguanas!! Iguana Love is one of the cute new sets released by Stampendous! a couple of months ago. It comes with the pair, and then the 2 single iguanas and a whole bunch of cute sentiments.

Heres a closeup of the Iguanas. After I stamped them I cut them out and adhered them to hearts that were cut with my Spellbinders Heart dies. (I machine stitched around the borders of the hearts and the mats on the page)

The title was created with some cloth thickers from American Crafts that were originally white, but then I airbrushed them to match my papers and Iguanas. The colors I chose were pulled from the Bo Bunny Peacock Lane collection. I also added a small heart that I stamped from the set and cut out then adhered directly to the corner of the photo.

I had fun with this part of the layout adding a hand-ruffled ribbon treatment that I created with ribbon and my sewing machine. The little scalloped border is a Spellbinders die. Layout for the page is based on this weeks sketch at Sketchy Thursday.

I also created a card with this cute new little stamp called "Betty holding Heart" from Pink Cat Studio. She's part of a set of 4 little cuties! This card is based on this weeks Sweet Sunday Sketch sketch challenge at The Sweetest Thing.

The card turned out quite a bit simpler than I usually end up with, but I just love the way Betty turned out colored! I matched her up with some gorgeous papers and chipboard embellishments from American Crafts..Letterbox.

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Its the Belle of the Ball! She is one of the newest images that will be available from Pixie Dust Studio tomorrow in the "Have a Ball Collection".

I used papers from the new Graphics 45 Once Upon a Springtime line...aren't they gorgeous? The pad happened to come with some cutouts that just happened to make a cute window! How lucky was that? Plus I used the papers to Paper-piece her dress.

I was in a really shimmery glimmery mood so I glimmer misted all my layers with Patina and Iridescent Gold Glimmer Mist! It adds such a beautiful touch! The flower is from Prima and the ribbon is May Arts I think. Her jewelry was all fancied up too with a touch of Snickerdoodle Smooch!

There's even a little ledge at the bottom of the window she she can lean out and wait for her Prince! All edges were also inked with Chestnut Roan cats eye after they were dry from the Misting.

Here's all the copics that I used...not so many since most of her is paper!

OK, be sure to check back in tomorrow for another sample from this collection...and tomorrow is Release Day! Be sure to head to the Pixie Dust Studio Blog for lots more eye candy!

I am going back a bit to my old stamping days here and getting out of my proverbial box. For the background on the main panel I spritzed a combination of Creme de Chocolat and Tattered Rose Glimmer Mists. After that was dry (and yes I hit it with the heat gun) I stamped and embossed the new Dragonfly Vine and embossed it with Olive and Chocolate EP from Stampendous!

The background on the card is also embossed with Stampendous! Mushroom EP using the new Dream Forever stamp.

The final step was to rub a touch of metallic chalk (Craf-T Products) into the wings of the dragonfly. Here's a couple of closeup shots.

Hope you enjoy this card! I will be back later today with a sneak Peek from the newest Pixie Dust STudio Collection! Also tomorrow is the BIG Valentine's Day Blog Hop! There are over 20 prizes to be had...you do NOT want to miss out!!

"...And I am a Material Girl". When I first saw this image from Tickled Pink I thought of Madonna! She was totally my 80's Fashion idol! I mean who didn't want to look like her?

The name of the stamp is Lil Fashionette 80's: Sookie. I colored her in some bright neon colors using the color palette from this weeks Color Throwdown as my inspiration...Orchid Opulence, Passion Pink, Real Red and Basic Black.

Here's the whole card . She was way before the time of Karaoke, so she must really be Madonna, right? Well this weeks challenge at the Tickled Pink Challenges is to create a Birthday project. So I added a new sentiment from Stampendous!, masked off and separated onto 2 different panels. Then added some stitching :)

Here's the copics that I used. Papers are from Bazzil, Bo Bunny, and Close to My Heart. Ribbon is Bo Bunny and Michael's.

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Its Challenge time at Pixie Dust Studio again! This week out theme is "Be My Valentine". I used this precious image called The Notebook from the last Pixie Dust StudioCollection called Cupid's Corner.

I loved this movie and the book, but I think I balled my eyes out for hours later and will never watch it again! For the layout of my car I used the Sweet Sunday Sketch from The Sweetest Thing for my layout.

Papers are quite old from my stash...by Junkitz. The sentiment is by Verve. I also used my Curvy Cutter for the large circle, Spellbinders Lg Scalloped Rectangle and Scalloped Border, and punches for the sentiment.